About us

Newcastle City Learning has provided adult learning within the city for many years. Our mission is to help people learn and achieve in a friendly and supportive environment. Within Newcastle City Council, Newcastle City Learning sits within the Education and Skills Division within the People Directorate. At the heart of the service is an ethos of supporting the people furthest away from the labour market in the city to develop their skills. Most provision is delivered and managed directly.

As well as delivering community learning provision Newcastle City Learning has strong links with a range of partners including Job Centre Plus, Your Homes Newcastle, Newcastle Futures Ltd, and employers. A strong partnership with the city’s Connexions service is also now well established.

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Prevent Duty

Prevent Duty

All Further Education providers have a duty to safeguard their learners and keep them safe from being exploited by extremists. The Prevent Duty is not about discouraging our learners from having political and religious views and concerns, but about supporting them to use those concerns or act on them in non-extremist ways.

Jan 2019 brochure out now!

Stay with us in the New Year and take up one of the many progression opportunities available to you. Our latest brochure is available now! Your tutor will speak to you about follow on courses and your next steps too.

Your Learner Handbook

Our new learner handbook is now available here (pdf 1.81MB). Packed full of useful information about the service, we hope you will find it helpful. We'll cover a lot of the topics during our new induction process too, and you will be given a copy of the handbook to take away with you at the start of your course.

Advanced Learner Loans

There have been changes to how education courses are funded for learners over 19 years old. Level 3 and above courses will no longer be funded by the Government (unless you are aged 19-23 years old and it is your first full Level 3 qualification) but you may qualify for an Advanced Learner Loan to cover your course fees.

If this loan is to fund an Access to HE Diploma leading to a completed degree, your Advanced Learner Loan will be written off so you don't have to pay it back.

It doesn't matter about your household income or even credit checks to qualify for a loan, and you don't have to pay anything back until you are earning over £21,000 a year.

Loans are available for people living in the UK on the first day of their course and have lived in this country, the Channel Islands of the Isle of Man for three years immediately before this.

Talk to our centre reception staff to get more details and your course offer letter which will have the information you will need to complete your loan application.